Newbie looking at 6040 (China CNC) for polypropylene 15mm sheet

[Boyan Silyavski]

For me Mach3 when bugged always had only one cure possible. Reinstall all clean and start from there. You will not believe the number of times that Mach3 bugged during the last 4 years and cure was the same. Thanks god now i dont have to use it.

[JOGARA]

For me Mach3 when bugged always had only one cure possible. Reinstall all clean and start from there. You will not believe the number of times that Mach3 bugged during the last 4 years and cure was the same. Thanks god now i dont have to use it.

If I do that I lose my XY position though :p
It is only a test bit but rather not start again.

What are you using now?

[Boyan Silyavski]

DDCSV1. It started as a joke, i just had returned the Pokeys57cnc and was wondering what better controller to buy. I have written a lot in the forum about said controller use search function in forum. So at the end it worked so well i did not feel the need to buy the more expensive offline controller i had in mind.
But back to Mach3? God No. Only for special purpose machine where/if i can not avoid it in any other way.

I have basically 0 min downtime last half year in workshop and thousands of things done. I had at least 1 week downtime /if not more/ the previous half year . And the last 5 years if we put together the time i have lost installing windows, Mach3, reconfiguring, boards, plugins, figuring how to make things work...I have lost a couple of months with Mach3, plugins and boards.

[JOGARA]

So because I lowered my stickout with the new roughing bit and pretty much all the others, I forgot to lower my spindel to compensate.

Which meant it was hitting the Z limit thus not going lower than 10mm.

[JOGARA]

Need to work on this 2mm bit.
I already use the rouging bit to hog out most of the material. Just need more square holes.




Here it is from the other side.

[Clive S]

Well you can't make a square hole with a round bit, so if you need it more square use a smaller bit.

[Neale]

Well you can't make a square hole with a round bit, so if you need it more square use a smaller bit.

...or overcut into the corners and have a bezel to hide it!

[JOGARA]

Well you can't make a square hole with a round bit, so if you need it more square use a smaller bit.

That is why I step down to a 2mm bit.
All the holes are different in that I tried different things with them.

The middle one worked the best as the buttons are not fully square themselves.